Chapter V The Legend

* * * * * It is no easy matter to organise a successful up-river picnic. You require fine weather; you require catering experience; and you require tact—especially tact. The problem of the fox and the goose and the bundle of hay—by the way, do geese eat hay?—is child’s play compared with the task that confronts a hostess called upon to divide a punt, a Canadian canoe, and a motor-launch among a party of assorted ages and sexes. However, by steadfastly bearing in mind: 1. That Mrs. Bagby…